Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM)
interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which
implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and
an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript
translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like
those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally
used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to
non-PostScript printers.
If you need to display PostScript files or print them to
non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you
install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts
package.
Security update for integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583) and upper bounds checks
(CVE-2009-0584) in the ICC profile handling.
* Fri Mar 20 2009 Tim Waugh
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2009-0583 (bug #487742) and CVE-2009-0584
(bug #487744).
[ 1 ] Bug #487742 - CVE-2009-0583 ghostscript: Multiple integer overflows in the International Color Consortium Format Library
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487742
[ 2 ] Bug #487744 - CVE-2009-0584 ghostscript: Multiple insufficient upper-bounds checks on certain sizes in the International Color Consortium Format Library
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487744
su -c 'yum update ghostscript' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at .
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